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The differentiation of metrical and non-metrical magnitudes on the empirico-mathematical level of the conceptualization of the object of measurement must necessarily appear in an explication of the result of measurement, too. Different numerical relational structures will correspond to the degrees of non-metrical magnitudes more than those which correspond to the sizes of metrical magnitudes. In either case, however, these structures constitute a certain progression of numerical values which are comprehensively designated by the term scale.
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© 1983 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Berka, K. (1983). Scales. In: Measurement. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7828-7_4
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